Scott Scores a Win as Trump Exempts Florida from Offshore Drilling

15/01/2018

"Instead of threatening our waterways and marine wildlife, President Trump should pay attention to the thousands of citizens, fishermen, town councils and business owners along the Atlantic coast and the millions of Americans from Alaska to ME who have already said "no" to offshore drilling", Ball said. Offshore drilling is a lose-lose proposition, and the entire proposed 5-year offshore oil lease plan should be withdrawn.

Scott had joined with a bipartisan group of state officials in blasting the administration's plan unveiled last week to open up Florida waters - a part of the largest single expansion of off-shore drilling activity ever proposed.

Scott said: "By removing Florida from consideration, we can now focus on how we can further protect our environment, including our proposal for record funding for the Everglades, our springs, our beaches and our state parks". He wanted to know why the administration made a decision to exclude Florida from its plan for offshore drilling while not also excluding Virginia.

This week's decision to drop Florida from that list came after Rick Scott, the Republican governor of the state, voiced his strong opposition to drilling off Florida's coast.

We applaud Governor Roy Cooper for standing up for our coast and opposing offshore drilling alongside a bi-partisan group of Atlantic Coast governors; including Florida, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and SC.

Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson said Scott may have achieved a political coup, but he called it a sham as Scott long advocated opening up Florida's waters to drilling. Sanford said. "I mean you can't say, "I don't want to see an oil rig from [Trump's club] Mar-A-Lago" as you look out from the waters of Palm Beach, but it's okay to look at an oil rig out from Hilton Head or Charleston, South Carolina". Because of historically low oil prices, many offshore drillers are working with existing infrastructure, versus exploring new territories. And in the final weeks of his presidency, Obama used his executive authority to put in place permanent protections - a move Trump acted swiftly to reverse. He has promised to meet with all coastal governors on the plan, but has not yet removed any other state from consideration.

The administration's decision on Tuesday removes from consideration a portion of the eastern Gulf of Mexico, an area that oil drillers have said they are interested in exploring - but not all of it.

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"If other governors would like to request meetings with the secretary", she said, "they are absolutely invited to do so".

"You have Florida, which obviously has incredibly electoral college consequences in presidential contests, all of a sudden being exempted in a way that other states might not be that are a little smaller in population count", Sanford told CNN.

The Wall Street Journal noted in an editorial that between fiscal years 2008 and 2016, federal revenue from offshore drilling dropped from $18 billion to less than $2.8 billion. Apparently, Zinke was unmoved by these pleas; lawmakers from the states said they didn't hear back. "We shouldn't be playing politics with the future of FL", Nelson said on Twitter.

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